The Shi family were arguing endlessly about the emperor's attempt to expel the Shi family's power to the southernmost end of the country.

On the contrary, no one was worried about whether Shi Xie stayed in Jiaozhou or went to Luoyang to become an official.

The elderly in the Shi family are the most unacceptable group to migrate south.

"My family has been south of Jiaozhou since Wang Mang's time, and has been here for six generations! Six generations of family business, with hard work, the earliest two generations of ancestors lived in the deep mountains and forests, and worked hard to create such a large ancestral property for their descendants.

These ancestral properties go back several generations. They are all wastelands and forests, and they cannot grow food at all. Now they can grow food and live people. The emperor said he would take it away. There is no way! If you want to take it away, you can step over the old corpse!"

A 96-year-old old man from the scholar family slammed the ground a few times with a stole given to him by the imperial court during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han.

He said that he would never leave his hometown. The emperor wanted him to leave. Yes, he just sat in his hometown's ancestral home. The emperor could act hard on him. As long as he beat him until he had no strength to resist or died, he could take him to the south.

In short, as long as he can breathe, he will never leave Cangwu's hometown.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, China has had a tradition of lofty elderly care, which basically runs through the entire feudal era.

In the pre-Qin period, there were certain systems for how to honor and care for the elderly.

Basically, the elderly will receive certain preferential treatment from the age of 60, and general corvee service has nothing to do with them.

When you reach the age of seventy, even if you are not an official, you can enjoy the preferential treatment of officials.

The Han Dynasty governed the country with filial piety and improved the feudal ethical system. Since Emperor Wen of Han, he gave the king's rod to those who were over 70 years old within the dynasty.

The king's staff is nine feet long and the head is decorated with doves. This dove stick is the same as the talisman used by the court, and is a kind of preferential certificate and status symbol.

The old man holding a dove can enter and exit the official government freely, walk in the middle of the road, and does not have to collect taxes when doing business. His status and treatment are the same as those of the officials of the Six Hundred Stones.

When you encounter a lawsuit, you do not need to pay tribute to the government. When you are convicted, you can be exempted from punishment for ordinary crimes. When you reach the age of 90, even if you are a serious crime of rebellion, you do not need to be punished.

Anyone who dares to insult such an old man is accused of being a ruthless person, which is equivalent to offending the emperor and being beheaded and abandoned as a deterrent.

On weekdays, the old man holding the king's scepter is also respected in the village. When encountering some civil disputes, the old man holding the king's scepter is generally regarded as the arbitrator, and the villagers believe them.

Therefore, the old man holding the king's scepter also has the authority to assist grassroots governments in governing local governments in a certain sense.

However, since it is lucky to live to be sixty in this era, it is rare to live to be seventy-year-old. In some places, there are no 70-year-old man in the entire township and county.

Therefore, the old men under the royal scepter system cannot replace the grassroots government, it is just a way to add to the top. If there is any major event in the government, they can summon these old men to explain to them what the court needs to do, and they will go back and tell the villagers and inform each other.

Because the average life expectancy is extremely low, there are very few people living to this age. This tradition of loving elderly people will not bring much burden to the government. Instead, it can maintain the entire feudal ethical system, implement it from top to bottom, and stabilize the rule of the court.

Therefore, Rong Shengsheng is a typical policy that is beneficial and easy to deal with.

After Guo Peng accepted Liu Jian's abdication to become the Emperor of Wei, he also announced that he would recognize the Han Dynasty's royal staff system. The royal staff issued by the Han court was also recognized in the Wei Empire.

He further stipulated that 60-year-olds begin to enjoy a certain degree of tax exemption and preferential treatment, and their families can enjoy a certain number of discounts when paying taxes.

The 70-year-old man was given a scepter and enjoyed the status of an official with a six hundred stone. He began to have the authority to uphold justice and also needed to be respected and valued by the authorities. Officials should not be rude to such elderly people. They would scold them at the least, and would be exempted from officials at the worst.

An eighty-year-old man enjoys preferential treatment from a thousand stone officials, and the tax exemption level is higher. He can also exempt two descendants from military service and corvee service in his family. He does not need to bow to him when facing him. When an eighty-year-old man sees an eighty-year-old man, he must take the initiative to get off the horse, get off the car, and bow to him.

At the age of ninety, it is a blessing for everyone, everyone respects and everyone is courteous.

Guo Peng stipulated that elderly people over 90 years old in the empire enjoyed the treatment of officials of two thousand stones, and the government would be honored and raised. His own property could be exempted from all taxes when he was alive.

Even the emperor, all the noble officials in the entire ruling class had to take the initiative to get out of the car and salute when they saw a 90-year-old man, regardless of his identity.

At this point, even if you rebel, you don’t have to be convicted. You stand in front of the emperor and sway, and the emperor will also give him a smile.

This is everything described in the edict he issued after Guo Peng ascended the throne.

So this 96-year-old scholar's old man really has the confidence to say this.

Even if Guo Peng stood in front of him, he dared to confront Guo Peng face to face, saying ruthless words that embarrass Guo Peng, making him unable to do anything, and then he had to smile.

It’s true that when you meet such an old man, you will be as strong as Mr. Guo.

Because this is a convention of the whole society and a thing that the entire nation believes in, even if he is a powerful emperor, this situation cannot be changed.

If this old man was unwilling to do so, no matter how strong the Wei army was, he could not force him.

When you meet him, you have to take a detour. No one dares to attack him. Taking action against him is equivalent to attacking the emperor, and it will kill people.

In addition to this 96-year-old ancestor, including Shang Shi Xie himself, the Shi family also has three elderly people over 70 years old, all of whom hold a scepter system under the king's scepter system, and the government cannot be rude to them.

With these four great Vajras in charge, the other half of the scholars immediately gave the confidence to fight against the imperial power.

They felt that no matter how strong the imperial power was, they could not attack the elderly in the Shi family.

This is true. Of course, Guo Peng would not attack the elderly in the Shi family. They were determined not to give Guo Peng face, and Guo Peng had to swallow his anger and suffer this loss.

But this does not give Shi Xie himself the confidence to fight against the imperial power.

The 90-year-old ancestor's body is as thin as a piece of paper and will die at any time. No one knows when this ancestor will be gone.

Once he disappeared, the Shi family's confidence in fighting against the imperial power would be lost. The three 70-year-old men who were left with Shi Xie were not sure how long they could last, and their deterrence to the imperial power would be greatly reduced.

Basically, it's impossible to confront.

The scholars' family want to rely on their ancestors to fight against the imperial power, which is really too risky. It basically depends on how long the ancestors can live.

Shi Xie really doesn't have the courage to bear this risk.

Life is rare in seventy years old, and it is a very rare life span from ancient times to the present. In order to live to this extent, Shi Xie himself began to count the days to plan his funeral.

After choosing the place for burial and the coffin, the process of burial was determined for yourself. How to divide the property after death, who inherited his status, etc., have made plans, just wait for the legs to kick and the eyes to turn back.

But the current situation really made him worried.

He dared not fight against imperial power.

He was unwilling to give up his ancestral property.

Just like the confrontation and quarrel between the family members who were split into two, he was so annoyed and extremely depressed.

As a result, the 96-year-old ancestor was probably angry and argued with a few unworthy descendants. Suddenly, he didn't breathe, his face turned red, and he fell straight to the ground, and then he didn't get up again.

People are gone.

I was so angry that I was exhausted.

Shi Xie ran over as if he had lost his soul. Seeing the corpse of his ancestor that had already been cold, he was immediately sad and cried for a long time while holding the corpse of his ancestor.

Now, the biggest reliance of the Shi family is that it is really gone.

Shi Xie was very upset and ordered to be held accountable. He learned that two juniors in their thirties were rude when their tribe members were talking.

What they said: "The ancestors are old and when they are over, they will be punished by the remaining sins. Is this fair? So the ancestors are so angry that they can't get up and die.

These two people were also frightened and were a little mentally ill.

In anger, Shi Xie ordered the two of them to be dragged outside to implement the family law and beat them to death until they were killed to see them off for their ancestors.

Within one day, three tribe members died in the Shi family.
Chapter completed!